Seth (Speed Dating with the Denizens of the Underworld #22)
by Laura Greenwood
My Rating: 3 stars
Genre: Paranormal Romance/ Mythology
Age Category: Adult
Type of romance: m/f
Blurb:
Avoiding goddesses was easy until Seth started to fall for one…Seth prefers to live his life away from the other gods, and that definitely means avoiding dating one. But when he turns up to a speed dating event to discover the woman he’s been talking to online is a goddess, everything could change.
Menhit never meant to hide her identity from Seth, but not having realised who he was when they first started talking, she’s now in too deep to want to walk away.
Can she convince him to take a chance on their budding relationship?
Seth is book twenty-two in the Speed Dating with the Denizens of the Underworld shared world series, filled with hidden gods, mistaken identities, and more.
My Review
After reading two stories in Laura Greenwood’s Jinx series in a row I wanted more of the same, but was up to date with the Jinx series at that moment, then I remembered this series and decided to continue it. As this series has a similar vibe as the Jinx series that worked well. Seth is about two gods who start dating through a dating site, but they both think the other is human. Eventually they find and then have to decide whether they want to keep dating.
This was a nice and light read. It was interesting how they are both gods, but don’t realize the other is a god as well at first. It was fun to see their banter over text before they met each other in real life and I thought it was interesting how they met on a dating app. There is a bit of conflict when they meet in real life and figure out the other is a god and didn’t reveal that, but I liked how this didn’t drag on and got resolved pretty quickly.
This book also has some progression for the plot line surrounding the Sons of Seth that were causing trouble in the first book, but it’s only a small bit of this book. I liked how the couple of the first book played a role in this book and one of the characters for the next book gets introduced as well.
Despite liking this book I just didn’t enjoy it as much as I had hoped. Everything was nice enough, but just lacked that little bit of extra. I liked the couple and their romance, but something about it just didn’t work for me as much as I had hoped.
To summarize: This was a light and easy read featuring two gods who start dating through a dating app not knowing the other is a god as well. I liked these two together and was glad the conflict didn’t drag on. There’s more of the couple from the first book which was nice and a slight bit of progression with the Sons of Seth plot line. Despite liking this book, it just wasn’t as good as I had hoped and something was missing to fully pull me into the story.
That is funny how they started enjoying their online bantering and texting, but didn’t realize they were both gods. Glad it worked well when you were looking for something like your other series.
It was fun they didn’t realize the other was a god at first and seeing them connect while texting at first.
Sounds like not a great read, but still good enough to finish. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
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It might just have been my mood as I did really enjoy the other in the series.